Giovanni Sartor

Professor of Legal Informatics and Legal Theory

On leave from the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna. Appointed in January 2006, contract renewed until January 2019.

Giovanni Sartor is part-time professor in legal informatics at the University of Bologna and part-time professor in Legal informatics and Legal Theory at the European University Institute of Florence. He obtained a Ph.D. at the European University Institute (Florence), worked at the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg), was a researcher at the Italian National Council of Research (ITTIG, Florence), held the chair in Jurisprudence at Queen’s University of Belfast (where he now is honorary professor), and was Marie-Curie professor at the European University of Florence. He has been President of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. He has published widely in legal philosophy, computational logic, legislation technique, and computer law.

Law and automation in socio-technical systems, in particular liability issues in air traffic management

Current Research Projects

ALIAS (Addressing Liability Impact of Automated Systems) The project, funded by EUROCONTROL and EU under the SESAR joint undertaking, addresses liability and automation in ATM, and more generally in complex socio-technical systems. It analyses present and future technological developments and their impacts on ATM, assesses current responsibility regimes and proposes future developments

Research council project: Legal Responsibilities and Artificial Autonomous Normative Agency